| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| Beneficial ownership data needn’t oppress |
| Clay R. Fuller
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| 发表日期 | 2019-07-21
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This letter is a response to an editorial by the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board titled “A New Small Business Burden” from July 15, 2019.
Your assertion that mom-and-pop shops would need lawyers to figure out who controls their enterprise carries a whiff of arrogance, implying that average business owners are too stupid to figure out who controls their company. Beneficial ownership isn’t a tax. It is basic information. Supporters of the bill don’t think it would stop criminals and terrorists from lying. Lawbreakers break laws. They also lie, cheat and steal.
However, I applaud the editors for expressing concern over privacy and access to beneficial ownership registries that should be treated in the same manner as any other personal banking information.
Anonymous shell companies are found at the root of just about every national-security threat that the U.S. faces today. Terrorists, criminals, nefarious state actors and the ultrarich global elite consistently abuse them to undermine our way of life. Beneficial ownership reform legislation also fits squarely within a so-called deregulation drive because it levels the playing field for mom-and-pop shops, freeing them from unfair competition with money launderers and other crooks.
Clay R. Fuller, Ph.D.
American Enterprise Institute
Washington |
| 主题 | Politics and Public Opinion
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| 标签 | dictatorship
; small business
; Terrorism
; transparency
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/ownership-data-oppress/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/266145
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